Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Ariana Grande—who was on stage in Manchester, England, when a pipe bomb detonated earlier this year—all expressed sympathy but a desire for a specific action: that people use the word “terrorist” when talking about the white American man who killed and injured hundreds.

Early in the morning, Ava DuVernay was sure to make mention of the language she had been seeing used to describe the shooter in the media thus far; terms like “lone wolf” or “the shooter,” often used to describe white, American-born murderers.